Hi everyone,

My blog has been broken for a little while now and just got around to fixing it this afternoon.  I kind of went backwards when I re-posted them so they are all a little out of order.  But I put some of my favorites at the beginning

Farmer Sadie

Well, I have to admit this was a challenging season. It seemed like everything that could have gone wrong, did. Here’s the short list:

• Spring came at the end of May so everything was in the ground two weeks late
• It was a cold spring so almost nothing germinated in the first round of planting
• It rained every other weekend so the weeds grew like crazy ALL SUMMER
• The corn was teeny-tiny and was quickly dwarfed by the weeds
• There were insects like I’ve never seen before – some kinds I didn’t even recognize!
• The insects brought with them a virus that killed half the cukes & melon
• The gophers ate half the potatoes and most of the carrots before I noticed
• By the time it finally warmed up enough to get thing growing… Fall came three weeks early

You can typically expect one, or even up to three, of these things to happen every year. Certainly not all. But on the positive side, we had a bumber crop of blackberries, plums, walnuts and cherries! The tomatoes were wonderful, there WAS enough to feed all the clients, and we didn’t have any animal emergencies this year. Managed to keep the new orchard and vineyard alive and built the new kitchen, too. Not too shabby.